Smyrna times., 1887-01-12
Sharp, Short and Sunny.

He that grasps at too much holds
nothing.
The deadly railroad stove has already
roasted almost as many victims as the
inquisitiOn.
The young man who has his even
ings to himself generally goes and gives
them to some one else.
The twilight testimony in the Elkin
case shows that the Girard College wall
may cover more pranks than those of
the students.
1t may be too soon for that earth
quake to have killed the Peninsular
peach crop, but it has probably given
the stones a good shaking up.
The cable says that NJ. Blowitz, DIR.
Blowit and Mr.. BLOW agree that Ger
many and Russia have made an alli-
ance. That ought to settle it.
A farmer of New Hope, Cal. who
planted 500 acres of potatoes has had
such an abundant crop that he calcu-
lates that it will yield him $4,000.
Emperor Dom Pedro, of Brazil, en-
tered his palace, recently, covered with
mud. He had been helping a poor
man get his cart out of quagmire.
Much praise is given women who go
bareheaded to the Boston theatre now.
But when men come bareheaded home
from the theatre, a great row is raised.
An old lady, wife of a well-to-do
farmer of Camden, Mich, wears the
same bonnet that she did thirty-fve
years ago, when she first went to the
State.
A very common epitaph placed on
the tomb of ancient knights and war
riors was "His bones are dust, his
good sword rust; his soul is with the
saints, we trust"
Jefferson Davis is now little sorry
he did not come north with Winnie
and have some fun, too. Come right
along, JEFF, and see what dear, good
Old-fashioned union we've got.
The North Star TOboggan Club of
Grand Forks, Oak, claim to have the
longest artificial slide in the world.
The trestle is 900 feet long, with fall
of 20 feet in 100 for the first 300 feet.
Social circles in Portland, Oregon,
have been racked recently over suit
brought by a florist for the price of a
bouquet which a young man presented
to bridesmaid and then refused to
pay for.
A waffle man in Peoria, ILL.,, celebra-
ted the anniversary of his release from
the Andersonville Confederate Prison
by baking corn cakes like those on
which the prisoners were fed and dis
tributing them among the veterans OF
that city.
They are having some pretty cold
weather in Minneapolis. And an enter
prising young business man has taken
advantage of that fact in a novel way
He has had erected a pretty little
building entirely out of blocks of ice,
and has opened store in it. He is
doing rushing business.
Louis Brennan, of Castlebar, County
Mayo, Ireland, has been awarded $780,.
600 by the English Admiralty for his
invention of a torpedo. His father
Thomas Brennan, blacksmith, intro.
duced gas into his hOnse at Castlebal
years before it was ever heard of in
that far western part of Ireland.
Almost any evening in Springfield
Mass, says The Union of that town, i
you have a chance to look you can sec
happy young couples practising tobog
gan attitudes in the parlor. There i.
one position in which the steerer get.
his chin on his passengers shoulder
which requires a good deal of practice
but is awful nice when you get it.
A sheet of ordinary paper warmed il
front of fire will, in a dark place, Civ,
very decided electric spark upon tn,
application of the knuckle, with i
cracking sound. On placing a shee
of gold leaf between two sheets of papeI
thus electrified, and passing a penci
point over them in zigzag course,
luminous flash quite strong will appear
A pastor in State adjoining this
preaching from the text Beware O
cOvetOusness," said. "Last Sunda,
night the collection in this hous
amounted to $3.50, and the dollar wa
thrown in by Baptist brother from
Richmond, Va, who happened to b
here and did not know any better
The other 600 of you dropped in th
80 cents. ."-RichmOnd Religious Herald
Cruel Grade Crossings.